Senior Product Manager, Retrieval Augmented Generation

Who are we?

Cohere is focused on building and deploying large language model (LLM) AI into enterprises in a safe and responsible way that drives human productivity, and creates magical new ways to interact with technology and real business value. We’re a team of highly motivated and experienced engineers, innovators, and disruptors looking to change the face of technology.

Our goals are ambitious, but also concrete and practical. Cohere wants to fundamentally change how businesses operate, making everyone more productive and able to focus on doing better what they do best. Every day, our team breaks new ground, as we build transformational AI technology and products for enterprise and developers to harness the power of LLMs.

Cohere was founded by three global leaders in AI development, including our CEO, Aidan Gomez, who co-created the Transformer, which makes LLMs possible. Collectively, we're driven by the belief that our technology has the potential to revolutionize the way enterprises, their employees, and customers engage with technology through language.

Cohere’s broader research team is world-renowned, having contributed to the development of sentence transformers for semantic search, dynamic adversarial data collection and red teaming, and retrieval augmented generation, often referred to as “RAG,” among other technological breakthroughs.

We have been deliberate in assembling a team of operational leaders with industry-leading experience, with backgrounds working at the most sophisticated, demanding, and respected enterprises in the world. Cohere’s operational leaders have built, scaled, and led multi-billion product lines and businesses at Google, Apple, Rakuten, YouTube, AWS, and Cisco.

The Cohere team is a collective from all walks of life, from people who left college to start businesses, to some of the most experienced people from globally renowned companies. We believe a diverse team is the key to a safer, more responsible technology, and that different experiences and backgrounds enable us to tackle problems from all angles and avoid blindspots.

There’s no better time to play a role in defining the future of AI, and its impact on the world.

Why this role?

Product Managers have the unique opportunity and responsibility to both define product vision and drive results. On this team, you’ll get to work with one of the leading AI and NLP teams in the world and grow the product vision and company culture.

As a Senior Product Manager, your responsibilities include:

Customer Engagement and Research

• Work with developers and enterprise customers to understand their needs and pain points through feedback, focus groups, customer interviews, conferences, etc.
• Research the competitive landscape, industry trends, and stay up to date on the latest AI and deep learning papers from leading conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, etc.) to find new ideas and inspire the team
• Analyze product data to understand usage and find opportunities for improvement
• Work with leadership to shape and understand company strategy and goals

Design and Product Development

• Leverage insights from customer engagement to define and prioritize a product roadmap
• Spec and design improvements and features, including defining metrics for success
• Propose new initiatives and features 
• Work with partners and leadership to prioritize short and long-term investments

Execution

• Make tradeoffs during unforeseen challenges uncovered in the development process 
• Lead internal product planning, coordinating team resources and informing stakeholders
• Ensure projects are rolled out with clear metrics and hypotheses and define the next steps for success
• Market and celebrate successes and document learnings, internally and externally

Team and Company Impact

• Embrace adjacent roles and responsibilities per team and project needs -- it’s a startup after all!
• Promote a culture of learning and listening

You may be a good fit, if you have:

• 5+ years of product management experience with at least 2 years of experience working handson with NLP, Deep Learning, and/or LLMs
• Direct experience guiding the work of research inspired teams building AI models and products.
• Direct experience making highly technical products simple and usable and launching them to enterprise customers.
• A scrappy, startup mentality to move fast, iterate quickly, learn on the go, and take initiative
• Great communication and interpersonal skills working across different teams, personalities, and working styles
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field (math, EE, etc.), or relevant technical experience.
• [Bonus] Advanced technical degree (MS or PhD), or a background in machine learning, algorithms, large scale systems, and statistics

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants of all kinds and are committed to providing an equal opportunity process. Cohere provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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